Edition Used:
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume, reprinted from the Original Edition in
three volumes and edited, with an analytical index, by L.A. Selby-Bigge, M.A.
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896).
Author: David Hume
Editor: Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
About This Title:
Hume’s first major work of philosophy published in 1739 when he was just 29 yeas
old. It is made up of three books entitled “Of the Understanding”, “Of the Passions”,
and “Of Morals”. In the book he uses his sceptical rationalism to create an ambitious
“science of man”.